Hi:
My Mac running libreoffice has wingdings , wingdings2,and wingdings 3 &
yet more than I had on my old machine with Windows XP.
z or should I say ⌘ works OK in every thing I have seen and opened from
the webpage.
I see no issues with using the windings2 "z" as the symbol is done with
my version
Regards
Ian.
On 9/02/11 7:47 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
In linux a lot of those "Windows only" fonts are in a package called something
like "mstcorefonts". I have webdings in linux :)
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: John M. Dlugosz<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 9 February, 2011 9:24:06
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Use of '⌘' character
Using the "used fonts" extension, I found a few things, including use of
"Wingdings" of all things! Searching for that, I found it used in "Note for Mac
users", which is present in every document and comes from the template.
It turns out that the "Command Key" symbol is typed using the 'z' character and
changed to Wingdings font. My understanding is that this font is including
(only) on Microsoft Windows. So, the Mac users whom this is aimed at will see a
'z' instead, or perhaps something goofy as it gets substituted with some random
symbol font. Is it actually visible on people's Mac's?
The character '⌘' encoded as U+2318. I see that it is not present in the
Liberation fonts used by the main text, but it shows up anyway in the document.
I presume this is some kind of font fall-back ability. So, at least using the
standard Unicode character will show up even if the needed font is absent! And
what font to use?
Linux Biolinum Kb has it, but in a "key cap" outline. That may be OK for this
specific usage, though it doesn't match the other key-typing explanations. I
also note it is in some of the DejaVu fonts, which appear to have been used in
previous versions of the OOo documents, and Symbola, available at
<http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/> and "free for any use".
I think we should change this in the Template and throughout. Thoughts?
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